Q of the Week: Who is your Sleeper Team To Watch for 2025?

[EdgyTim]

Sleeper as we know can be pretty open to interpretation but in my eyes a sleeper is a team that's in 2024 went say 5-4 or worse and did not do much at all in the post season.

Some examples for me you ask?

St Ignatius
ICCP
Providence Catholic
Carmel
New Trier
Phillips
Lake Zurich
Plainfield North
Bolingbrook
H-F
HInsdale Central
Glenbard West


Who is yours?

 

[SiuCubFan8]

I'm keeping an eye on Bolingbrook.

 

[colin2229]

Bishop Mac

Lower levels were good this year and I like the new head coach.

 

[rocketnation]

Springfield, 5-5 last season.

The Senators have their QB for a 3rd year and also return their lead rusher and lead receiver.

 

[USD24]

H-F. New coach at a school that seems to have everything you need to win.

 

[wesbreton]

Just get to 5 wins and get to the playoffs. With some of those team’s schedules that’s a feat in itself.

 

[Anomalyout28]

Lake Park

 

[ramblinman]

Bartlett freshmen

Never gets old!

 

[johnndoe]

H-F. New coach at a school that seems to have everything you need to win.

I see a probable 2-1 record against 3 teams on their schedule with the need to go at least 3-3 vs. the remaining 6 ('Brook, St. Ch. N, Lockport, Sandburg and the 2 Napervilles).

 

[MMA_Det]

I am actually excited to see how DLS bounces back

I saw what the coach did at STL and think that he can continue where he has left off

 

[Wassup13]

Iggy
DePaul

 

[mc140]

I am actually excited to see how DLS bounces back

I saw what the coach did at STL and think that he can continue where he has left off

Looked like a continuation of how Oak Lawn was left last year over DelaSalle. Unless they hit the portal hard, it is going to take a couple of years to get competitive on the varsity.

 

[StL_Alum]

Iggy
DePaul

Depaul a sleeper? They just won state.

 

[StL_Alum]

Lockport

 

[StL_Alum]

Looked like a continuation of how Oak Lawn was left last year over DelaSalle. Unless they hit the portal hard, it is going to take a couple of years to get competitive on the varsity.

I like Harold, but he’s got his hands full at DLS. Gonna be tough to right that ship but I guess the only direction they can go is up. It’s crazy to me how fast things went south over there.

 

[RogerRabbit87]

Hersey is my pick. Have the RB back who is a stud and a QB who is rumored to be even better than the kid they had last year. They were young in some key spots last year and have some good pieces in skill positions back to make them a scary team

 

[cornerrat]

Bishop Mac

Lower levels were good this year and I like the new head coach.

All.... The Fightin' Irish meet the opening criteria to qualify for the new waiver. No postseason wins in the previous three seasons. This will be a good test case to see if the Ihsa is going punitive on issuing waivers. If Mac submits the paperwork for waiver status (and I don't see why they won't) next comes - "The Ihsa Staff will review each waiver request with the school name removed and vote to approve or deny." Whatever in the hell that means..... name removed. "A simple majority vote will determine the result." "The Ihsa Board will review the staff votes and have discretion to change them." Looking at that language two ways. A no vote could end up yes (not likely) or a yes vote could end up no. Sigh....

Macs 2025 enrollment by the way is 336.00 If they get the waiver postseason qualifiers from the past suggest a good chance if they make it in playing class 2A. Oh boy.... Ratsy

 

[Silver Rain]

No one is sleeping on Mount Carmel, but Emmett Dowling could be considered a sleeper of a quarterback. Not a four-star prospect like Jonas Williams, or even a three-star like Owen Lansu, Dowling is nonetheless a QB whose star is on the rise. Why do I say that? Four big reasons:

1. He's a Dowling.
2. He has Lynch as a tutor.
3. He has an inpenetrable line.
4. He has what is probably the best receiving corps in MC history.

Last year, Elliott made the players around him better. This year, the players around him will make Dowling better.

 

[Wassup13]

Depaul a sleeper? They just won state.

Can't get anything past you.

 

[MsDavis10]

Depaul a sleeper? They just won state.

Will they be jumping 3 or 4 classes next year? That’s a decent gap in playoff competition, maybe calling them a sleeper isn’t that crazy?

 

[McCaravan]

Mount Carmel